Sunday June 10 2018

Sermon : “Darkness Pt 2” B
Finished from last Sunday.
    Pastor Kim Wenzel

Lay Up Treasures In Heaven
 Matthew 6: 19-24 NKJV
¹⁹ “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The Lamp Of The Body
²² “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is ^[g]good, your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eye is ^[h]bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
 You Can Not Serve God And Riches
²⁴ “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and^[i]mammon.

 Isaiah 58: 1-5 NKJV
1 “Cry aloud, ^[a]spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins. ² Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God. ³ ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’ “In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,And ^[b]exploit all your laborers.  Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do this day, To make your voice heard on high. ⁵ Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast,

And an acceptable day to the Lord?

Instead of crying aloud and sparing not, they are practicing a selfish feel-good-religion

Jesus The Light Of The World

John 8:1-12 NKJV

1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ² Now ^[a]early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. ³ Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, ⁴ they said to Him, “Teacher, ^[b]this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. ⁵ Now ^[c]Moses, in the law, commanded us ^[d]that such should be stoned. But what do You ^[e]say?” ⁶ This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, ^[f]as though He did not hear.
⁷ So when they continued asking Him, He ^[g]raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” ⁸ And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. ⁹ Then those who heard it, being^[h] convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. ¹⁰ When Jesus had raised Himself up ^[i]and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers ^[j]of yours? Has no one condemned you?”
¹¹ She said, “No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go ^[k]and sin no more.”
¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”


John 3:18-21 NKJV

¹⁸ “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. ²¹ But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

Proverbs 6:16-19 NKJV

 ¹⁶ These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to ^[h]Him: ¹⁷ A^[i] proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, ¹⁹ A false witness who speaks lies,
And one who sows discord among brethren.

Matthew 6:33-34 NKJV

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Footnotes
g. Matthew 6:22 Clear, or healthy
h. Matthew 6:23 Evil, or unhealthy
i. Matthew 6:24 Lit., in Abram.
 Riches Mammon /ˈmæmən/ in the New Testament of the Bible is commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, or any entity that promises wealth, and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain. "You cannot serve both God and mammon."
a. John:8-2 M very early
b. John:8-4 M we found this woman
c. John:8-5 M in our law Moses commanded
d. John:8-5 NU, M to stone such
e. John:8-5 M adds about her
f. John:8-6 NU, M omit as though He did not hear
g. John:8-7 M He looked up
h. John:8-9 NU, M omit being convicted by their conscience
i. John:8-10 NU omits and saw no one but the woman; M He saw her and said,
j. John:8-10 NU, M omit of yours
k. John:8-11 NU, M add from now on
a. Isaiah 58:1 do not hold back
b. Isaiah 58:3  Lit. drive hard
h. Proverbs 6:16 Lit. His soul
i. Proverbs 6:17 Lit. Haughty eyes

Today's Verse
1 Peter 5:8-9
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.